electronics

New technology could help solve AI’s ‘memory bottleneck’

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Memory-hungry, power-sapping big data might finally have met its match. Electrical engineers at Northwestern University and the University of Messina in Italy have developed a new magnetic memory device that could potentially support the surge of data-centric computing, which requires ever-increasing power, storage and speed. Based on antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials, the device is the smallest … Read more New technology could help solve AI’s ‘memory bottleneck’

Expert in visual neuroscience has international award in his sights

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Pioneering discoveries about the ‘extraordinarily strange’ visual systems of shrimps – that could improve early detection of cancer – have been recognised with an international prize. University of Queensland researcher Professor Justin Marshall shared the Rank Prize for Optoelectronics with long-term colleague Professor Tom Cronin from University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Optoelectronics focuses on light-emitting or light-detecting devices, and the pair has revealed … Read more Expert in visual neuroscience has international award in his sights

Imec, TNO and Cartamundi develop flexible tags that communicate with standard touch screens

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Imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, TNO, and Cartamundi announced that they have developed a flexible capacitive identification tag that communicates with standard touch screens (C-touch). C-touch tags can be integrated in a wide range of paper and plastic based objects such as tickets, certified documents, payment cards, realizing … Read more Imec, TNO and Cartamundi develop flexible tags that communicate with standard touch screens

Creating switchable plasmons in plastics

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Researchers in the Organic Photonics and Nano-optics goup at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics have developed optical nanoantennas made from a conducting polymer. The antennas can be switched on and off, and will make possible a completely new type of controllable nano-optical components. Plasmons arise when light interacts with metallic nanoparticles. The incident light sets … Read more Creating switchable plasmons in plastics

A four-way switch promises greater tunability of layered materials

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A scientific team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Vanderbilt University has made the first experimental observation of a material phase that had been predicted but never seen. The newly discovered phase couples with a known phase to enable unique control over material properties – an advance that paves the way … Read more A four-way switch promises greater tunability of layered materials

Flexible organic photovoltaics make breakthrough

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To fully materialize the potential of organic electronic devices is to have their performance on flexible substrates as same as that on rigid substrate such as glass. However, the performance of flexible organic optoelectronic devices still lags behind the performance of devices on rigid substrates. This is due, in particular, to the lack of high-performance … Read more Flexible organic photovoltaics make breakthrough

FEFU and FEB RAS scientists are close to Integrate Silicon Electronics and Spintronics

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Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) and the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS) developed the nanoheterostructure consisted of a nanocrystal magnetite film (Fe3O4) covering a silicon substrate with an additional layer of silicon oxide (SiO2/Si). Its magnetic and magnetotransport properties may help to design highly efficient hybrid semiconductor … Read more FEFU and FEB RAS scientists are close to Integrate Silicon Electronics and Spintronics

Printing flattens polymers, improving electrical and optical properties

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Researchers have found a way to use polymer printing to stretch and flatten twisted molecules so that they conduct electricity better. A team led by chemical and biomolecular engineers from the University of Illinois report their findings in the journal Science Advances. Conjugated polymers are formed by the union of electron-rich molecules along a backbone of … Read more Printing flattens polymers, improving electrical and optical properties